Working Papers
"Optimal Income Taxes and Tariffs in a Small Economy," with E. Dinopoulos. (Paper)
"Effects of Debt Exposure on Self-employment: Evidence from US Local Markets in the Great Recession." (Paper)
"Productivity Trends in India's Manufacturing Sectors in the Last Two Decades," IMF Working Paper, 2003. (Paper)
Publications
"Financial Suicide: Debt and Death across US Counties during the Great Recession" with S. Abrahams, 2026. Economic Inquiry, Conditionally Accepted (Paper)
"Effects of Chinese Import Competition on Self-employed Business Owners in the US," 2025. Review of International Economics, 33, 436-449. (Paper)
"Does Credit Expansion Encourage Small Businesses to Incorporate? Evidence from US Bank Deregulations," with J. Ma and A. Sarker, 2025. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 230: 106880. (Paper)
"Effects of Immigration on Native Entrepreneurship in the US: an Analysis of Self-employment over 1980–2018," 2025. Small Business Economics, 64: 755-773 (Paper).
"Tariff Wars, Unemployment, and Top Incomes," with E. Dinopoulos and G. Heins, 2024. Journal of Monetary Economics, 148: 103616.
"Oil & Gas Induced Economic Fluctuations and Self-Employment," with G. Upton, 2023. Labour Economics, 82, 102362.
"Do Attitudes Toward Risk Taking Affect Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Second-generation Americans," with A. Chanda, 2021. Journal of Economic Growth, 26, 385-413.
"Effects of U.S. Banking Deregulation on Unemployment Dynamics," 2020. Journal of Macroeconomics, 65, 1-13.
"Effects of FDI on Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Right-to-Work and Non-Right-to-Work States," with O. Eren and M. Onda, 2019. Labour Economics, 58, 98-109.
"Persistence of Cities: Evidence from China," with Fan Duan, 2019. Review of Development Economics, 23, 663-676.
"Politics and Entrepreneurship in the U.S.," with L. Beland, 2019. Canadian Journal of Economics, 52, 33-57.
"A Model of Occupational Choice, Offshoring and Immigration," 2019. Review of International of Economics, 27, 267-289.
"Effects of Credit Supply on Unemployment and Inequality," with S. Bandyopadhyay and E. Dinopoulos, 2018. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 100, 345-362.
"Offshoring and Unemployment in a Credit-Constrained Economy," 2018. Journal of International Economics, 111, 21-33.
"The Impact of Party Affiliation of U.S. Governors on Immigrants' Labor-Market Outcomes," with L. Beland, 2018. Journal of Population Economics, 31, 627-670.
"Governors' Part Affiliation and Unions," with L. Beland, 2018. Industrial Relations, 57, 177-205.
"Skill-Biased Technological Change, Earnings of Low-skill Workers, and Crime," with N. Mocan, 2017. Review of Law and Economics, 13, 1-46.
"Managerial Capital, Occupational Choice, and Inequality in a Global Economy," with E. Dinopoulos, 2017. Canadian Journal of Economics, 50, 365-397.
"Entrepreneurs, Jobs, and Trade," with E. Dinopoulos, 2015. European Economic Review, 79, 93-112.
"The Impact of Mothers' Earnings on Health Inputs and Infant Health," with N. Mocan and C. Raschke, 2015. Economics and Human Biology, 19, 204-223.
"Human Capital Formation and International Trade," 2015. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 15, 1067-1092.
"The Interaction Between Technology Adoption and Trade When Firms are Heterogeneous," 2013. Review of International Economics, 21, 797-808.
"A Simple Model of Quality Heterogeneity and International Trade," with E. Dinopoulos, 2013. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37, 68-83.
"When is Trade Protection Good for Growth?," with J. Minier, 2013. Economic Inquiry, 51, 62-71.
"Quality Heterogeneity and Global Economic Growth," with E. Dinopoulos, 2011. European Economic Review, 55, 595-612.
"Analyzing Skilled and Unskilled Labor Efficiencies in the US," 2010. Journal of Macroeconomics, 32, 957-967.
"Firm Heterogeneity, Trade, and Wage Inequality," 2010. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34, 1369-79.
"Technology Diffusion through Trade with Heterogenous Firms," 2010. Review of International Economics, 18, 465-481.
"The Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China: A Nonparametric Analysis," with H. Zebregs, 2009. IMF Staff Papers, 56, 239-262.
"R&D Spillovers Through Trade in a Panel of OECD Industries," 2008. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 17, 105-133.
"Privatization and Firm Performance: A Comparison between Rural and Urban Enterprises in China," with X. Dong and L. Putterman, 2006. Journal of Comparative Economics, 34, 608-633.
"Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry, and Efficiency," with T. Page and L. Putterman, 2005. Economic Journal, 115, 1032-1053.
"Characterization of Self-Selective Social Choice Functions on the Tops-Only Domain," with S. Koray, 2003. Social Choice and Welfare, 20, 495-507.